Young people in Norway have never experienced a world without the internet. This
thesis explores uses of digital technology in children’s lives, and draws on fieldwork
among eight- and nine-year olds in Kristiansand to ...

Governments issue restrictive immigration policies in their eagerness to protect their nations from the entrance of undesired' migrants. However, by toughening policies, individuals without immigrant background and their ...

This thesis examines the socio-medical order that formed around epidemic fevers in
Kerala following the chikungunya and H1N1 outbreaks between 2007 and 2009. I study its political
interfaces, embodied aspects, implications ...

Abstract
Poverty eradication and food security issues are central to most international development policies and developing countries including Ghana. International and national policies encourage investments in the ...

Malawi is a poverty struck nation placed in-between Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia. The professional health care sector is struggling to meet the needs of its population with only two physicians per 100.000 populations. ...

In this thesis I explore clients’ participation in therapy groups at a drug treatment program in San Francisco. Based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork, following women in their daily attempts at “working the program”, ...

This text probes into the phenomenon of seeking, as it is narrated by, and manifesting itself
among, people who have visited Norwegian Buddhist groups to various extent. Seeking may
manifest itself in a multitude of ...

Abstract
The oil industry is extractive as well as capital intensive, and it often seeks to serve the interests of those controlling the means of production at the expense of other players/stakeholders. The activities of ...

This study explores the relationship between kinship and the ritual theyyam worship of North Malabar region in the state of Kerala, India. Theyyam is a socio-religious ritual in which mythological, divine, ancestral, animal, ...

In this article, I question regional context as primary context in anthropological analyses. I argue that the idea of historical continuity in a geographical locality/region might prevent us from understanding not only ...

Anthropologists have previously engaged in virtual fieldwork
in order to discover and
document different large online worlds such as
World of Warcraft
(Nardi 2010),
Everquest
(Taylor 2006),
Second Life
(Boellstroff ...

This thesis is about public healthcare in the Andes and how women in the Colca Valley, an area located in the southern region of Arequipa, are made subjects by health-development projects Women in the Andes, especially ...

Pentecostal Christianity has been depicted as a leading globalizing force, while simultaneously opening up for the preservation of existing cultural forms. In this thesis I explore the relation between the local and the ...